Increasing inequality in age of death at shared levels of life expectancy: A comparative study of Scotland and England and Wales.

ABSTRACT: There is a strong negative correlation between increasing life expectancy and decreasing lifespan variation, a measure of inequality. Previous research suggests that countries achieving a high level of life expectancy later in time generally do so with lower lifespan variation than forerunner countries. This may be because they are able to capitalise on lessons already learnt. However, a few countries achieve a high level of life expectancy later in time with higher inequality. Scotland appears to be such a country and presents an interesting case study because it previously experienced lower inequality when reaching the same level of life expectancy as its closest comparator England and Wales. We calculated life expectancy and lifespan variation for Scotland and England and Wales for the

SUBMITTER: Seaman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5165049 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature